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...really can't say...I suppose you must judge me in comparison with other directors. I'm often surprised, after my films are finished, when I'm told by a lot of critics what they're about. They sound even stranger than I though they were...
...porticoed town hall, Peter Harmon asserts that he has a knack not only for finding water but also for stranger things, like out-of-the-body trips. "I've been to the moon," he announces with utter solemnity. Then, before a skeptical visitor can mutter "Really?" Harmon explains that he once encountered a moon-walking NASA astronaut at a meeting. "The fellow said to me, 'My gosh, didn't I meet you somewhere before?' " Harmon chuckles. But the apostle of science, shaking his head, does not laugh. Because Harmon clearly believes his own story...
...first scene, we are asked to believe that a wealthy New York housewife (Fawcett-Majors) would fall instantly in love with a shleppy Macy's salesman (Jeff Bridges) she spots across a crowded store. Minutes later, the heroine decides to abandon her husband for this nearly complete stranger - only to discover that Hubby has just been murdered. Rather than call the police, she and her new boyfriend set out to solve the case themselves. What follows is a series of progressively more improbable events. To buy this film's plot, it isn't enough to suspend disbelief...
...than figuring out the tip. Lulled by the reassuring buzz of the enormous glowing purple fly killer on the wall, I only wanted to hunker down over my order, and check out my fellow urban refugees who crowded the place. As the night went on, however, the crowd grew stranger. Any hope of calm was destroyed, and a hasty retreat became the only course left...
...Stranger things than Poetry have happened in publishing, but not many. The magazine never thrived, but it survived, outlasting decades of precarious financing, attempted coups by competing schools of poets and unvarying public in difference. Its monthly circulation rarely topped 9,000 copies, but the journal's reach vastly exceeded its grasp. Whether or not they always read Poetry, nearly every American poet who mattered in this century submitted manuscripts...